This document summarizes the results of a 2013 cloud and IT metering survey. 205 organizations responded to questions about their cloud usage, infrastructure, spending expectations, and concerns. Key findings include that most use public IaaS for test/dev and production, with cost savings and flexibility as top benefits. Private cloud is used more for production, with flexibility and cost savings as top benefits. Spending on both public and private clouds is expected to increase in 2013 for most respondents. Security is a top concern for both public and private clouds. IT metering is used by 39% primarily through on-premise or custom applications to optimize costs and efficiency.

1. 2013 Cloud and IT Metering
Survey Results
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2. A Sample of the Respondents
205 total responses from
organizations such as…

3. Demographics
How many employees does your
company employ?
Greater than
Primary Vertical Industry
Minerals/Mini
10,000 Banking Chemicals
ng
19% Less 3% 1%
1% Telecommuni Consumer
than
cations Products Energy/Utiliti
50 Software
5% 5% es
21% vendor Other 3%
2,000- 1%
Pharmaceutic 4%
50-500 Financial
10,000 19% als
500- Services
23% 1%
2,000 6%
18% Retail
10%
Non-
profit General
Organization Type 3% Manufacturin
g
Software 11%
Vendor
5% I don't
Cloud/Data know Medical
Center 10% Devices
Operator 1% IT Services
5% 8% Healthcare Government
Government Logistics/Tran 19% 1%
10% Enterprise sportation
52% 3% Insurance
2% Higher
Reseller Legal Education
18% Services 5%
4%

4. Demographics
Ireland
France
2%
0% Country HQ Japan
Sweden Job Title/Role
1%
Finland 1%
Egypt India Switzerland
0% Brazil VP, Technolog
1% 1% 1%
0% Sysadmin y Business
3% Other
El Salvador 3% Development
Support 2%
Security 2% CEO
Singapore 1% Sales 5%
Manager 3%
1% 4% Architect
1%
UK 6%
QA
6% CIO CISO
Manager
President
1% 5% 2%
Canada 2%
CTO
5% 3%
Owner
2% IT
Infrastructure
Manager
3%
IT Director Engineer
17% 14%
US Consultant
80% IT Manager IT 4%
19% Administrator
2%

5. Infrastructure
Approximately how many physical Approximately how many virtual
servers are running in your machines are running in your
infrastructure? infrastructure?
2000+ 2000+
5% I'm not 7%
sure I'm not 1-ten
1-10 sure
6% 17%
23% 7%
500-2000
12% 500-2000
17%
10-100
100-500 10-100 31%
26% 28% 100-500
21%
Physical Machine-to-VM Ratios
Grand
Physical/VM 1-10 % 10-100 % 100-500 % 500-2000 % 2000+ % I'm not sure % Total
1-Ten 29 63% 16 35% 1 46
10-100 4 7% 29 50% 18 31% 5 9% 1 2% 1 2% 58
100-500 1 2% 17 33% 16 31% 16 31% 1 2% 1 2% 52
500-2000 1 9 36% 9 36% 5 20% 1 4% 25
2000+ 4 36% 6 55% 1 9% 11
I'm not sure 1 1 1 8% 10 77% 13
Grand Total 35 17% 63 31% 44 21% 34 17% 14 7% 15 7% 205

6. Hypervisors and OS’s
Hypervisors in Use Server Operating Systems in Use
Windows Server 37.5%
Vmware Vsphere 80.0%
Linux - RedHat Enterprise Linux 16.4%
Citrix Xen 28.3%
Linux - CentOS 7.9%
IBM AIX 7.9%
Hyper V 27.8%
HP-UX 7.4%
Xen Open Source 8.3%
Mac OSX 6.4%
Linux - Ubuntu 6.2%
None 7.8%
44% using 2 or
Linux - Other 4.3%
more hypervisors
Open KVM 4.4%
Linux - Debian 1.9%
Linux - Fedora 1.5%
RHEV 3.9%
Other 1.0%
Other 3.4%
z/OS 0.6%

7. Cloud Usage
Are you using public Are you using private Using hybrid cloud?
cloud IaaS? cloud IaaS?
I don't I don't
know know
I don't
12% 3%
know Yes
9% Yes 28%
Yes
31%
39%
No No No
60% 49% 69%
Which public clouds are you using? Which private clouds are you using?
Amazon Web Services 50.0% Vmware Vcloud Director 68.8%
Rackspace 25.0% RedHat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) 15.6%
None 21.9% Citrix Cloud Platform 15.6%
HP Cloud 12.5% OpenStack 14.1%
Savvis 4.7% HP Cloud Service Automation 14.1%
Terremark 3.1% None 9.4%
GoGrid 3.1% CloudStack 6.3%
Virtustream 1.6%
Cisco CIAC 6.3%
Tier3 1.6%
Eucalyptus 3.1%
SoftLayer 1.6%
CA AppLogic 1.6%
CSC 1.6%
Abiquo 1.6%
Bluelock 1.6%
Virtustream 0.0%
Joyent 0.0%
Joyent 0.0%
Dimersion Data 0.0%

8. Cloud Usage
Types of workloads deployed in public Types of workloads deployed in
cloud private cloud
Test/Dev 67.2% Production 75.3%
Production 62.5% Test/Dev 74.1%
Backup 37.5% Mission Critical 44.4%
Mission Critical 20.3% Backup 39.5%
Other 7.8% Other 2.5%

9. Cloud Benefits
Most Important Benefits Gained From Using Public Clouds
Cost savings/lower TCO 60.9%
Flexibility 59.4%
Scalability 57.8%
Faster time-to-value 56.3%
Business agility 42.2%
Other 4.7%
Most Important Benefits Gained From Using Private Clouds
Flexibility 72.8%
Cost savings/lower TCO 71.6%
Scalability 55.6%
Faster time-to-value 43.2%
Other 4.9%
Business agility 0.0%

10. 2013 Expected Cloud Spending
2013 Public Cloud Spending Expectations
Percent of Total
Increase >20% 29.7%
Increase 10-20% 31.3%
Increase 5-10% 21.9%
Increase by <5% 6.3%
Stay the same 10.9%
Decrease by >20% 0.0%
Decrease by 10-20% 0.0%
Decrease by 5-10% 0.0%
Decrease by <5% 0.0%
2013 Private Cloud Spending Expectations
Percent of Total
Increase >20% 28.4%
Increase 10-20% 24.7%
Increase 5-10% 17.3%
Increase by <5% 8.6%
Stay the same 17.3%
Decrease by >20% 1.2%
Decrease by 10-20% 1.2%
Decrease by 5-10% 1.2%
Decrease by <5% 0.0%

11. Public Cloud Concerns
Why is your organization NOT Does your organization plan to
using public cloud today? use the public cloud in 2013?
A sample of the verbatim responses:
Yes
• Privacy, security, availability concerns 11%
• Cannot decide on which one Under
Consideration
• Not yet part of our strategy 47%
No
• HIPAA 42%
• Our CIO doesn’t trust the public cloud
• Cost
• Budget Why are you NOT using public
• We are a school and restricted with what can cloud?
be put on the cloud Security
• Working on it for 2013 No compelling need
• Not fully investigated Evaluating
Regulatory requirements
• No current need Reliability
Privacy
• Significant existing investments in on-site Trust
Control
infrastructure Vendor viability
• Our customers have restrictions that prevent 0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
us from using a public cloud infrastructure
• Security and control

12. Private Cloud Concerns
Why is your organization NOT Does your organization plan to
using private cloud today? use private cloud in 2013?
A sample of verbatim responses: Yes
• No need 18%
• Currently in development Under
consideration
• Not interested at this time 35%
• Tools to automate are not yet ready No
• Provisioning process not hashed out. 47%
So skill set issue.
• Cost, budget Why are you NOT using private cloud?
• Knowledge and understanding of No compelling need
benefits Evaluating
• Security Don't know
Security
• Just starting to investigate Cost
• Too early edge Internal limitations
• Planning DR site Lack of functionality
• Very small operation…50 PC’s…all in Reliability
one office 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
• That is so last year

13. Metering
Are you metering your How are you metering?
IT infrastructure usage
Why are you not metering your IT
today?
Other infrastructure consumption?
14%
On-premise
packaged
software
application
Homegrown 40% Other
/custom
developed
11%
I don't application
know 29% SaaS/On-
11% demand
Yes Don't have
application
39% 17% the right
software
and/or tools
34%
I don't see
No the value in
50% metering
consumption
44% I can't use IT
infrastructure
consumption
data
11%

14. What is IT metering?
IT metering is the process of gathering and analyzing IT infrastructure consumption, just like
metering electric utility consumption with a meter today. IT metering enables organizations
to optimize costs and operational efficiency by:
• Normalizing IT resource consumption data from all infrastructure into one single unit
of measure regardless of the location, operating systems, hypervisors, or cloud
platforms for comprehensive, apples-to-apples analysis
• Identifying over-provisioned hardware and opportunities to eliminate waste
• Pinpointing optimal utilization rates to save money and improve operational efficiency
• Classifying workloads and matching them with the appropriate type of IT
infrastructure
If you are interested in learning more about the survey data, about IT metering, or
about 6fusion, please visit www.6fusion.com or email us at info@6fusion.com